Blackberry 8703e and Google Maps and Bluetooth and Traffic and Verizon! Working together!
Finally. A Verizon 8703e that gets realtime traffic and GPS navigation with an external puck for free.
I installed a million GPS applications on my 8703e and none quite did it. The closest was Telenav, but they do not have traffic information for the 8703e.
Then, out of nowhere, Google Maps for Mobile went from not supporting an external GPS at all to
- Supporting the external GPS puck
- Providing real-time traffic information
And I am anxious to play with it, see how it works, see Google do something amazing yet again.
Indeed tonight I was a little dot on a red route 93 South, crawling along at 3 mph and… happy. Free GPS and traffic info on my Verizon 8703e.
Check it out. You want Google Maps Version 2.0.1
Just dont try it with Opera Mini, unquestionably the best browser for BlackBerry out there. Again, it’s a freebie. The only goofy thing about it is the way you enter text into forms. The Google site can’t tell which BB you have if you hit their servers with an Opera Mini browser.
Take care,
Josh